There are many types of revenue recognition that are allowed under the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and they all have different benefits and limitations depending on how you do business. The percentage-of-completion method (PoC) is a common revenue recognition method for companies that deal in long-term contracts.
Some companies need to have a way to recognize a portion of the revenue earned from a long-term contract before the project has been completed. In such cases, they generally employ the percentage-of-completion method of accounting, which is a way to determine what percentage of the revenue of the entire contract should be accrued during a specific time period.
Construction companies are some of the most frequent practitioners of the PoC method. For many of them, the bulk of their revenue comes from longer projects that can take months (or even years) to finish. These companies have to rely on percentage-of-completion methods in order for their financial statements to accurately reflect their revenues and expenditures during periods when these projects are ongoing.
Though it may seem obvious that construction companies would benefit from using PoC, construction is far from the only industry in which this method is useful. It can be applicable to a wide variety of situations, including for software companies that create custom products for clients that require ongoing development and frequent modifications.
As mentioned, there are many revenue recognition methods that a company can choose to employ. One of the most common is the sales-based method, where the entirety of the revenue is recognized as soon as the sale is complete. For a retail company, this would be the moment a customer decides to make a purchase, since all the work on the product has already been completed. For a hospitality company, revenue isn't recognized until the guest stays at the property, even if a reservation and a deposit had been made months in advance.
Another common alternative to the percentage-of-completion method is the completed-contract method. Once the parameters of the contract have been fulfilled, then all of the revenue associated with that job is recorded at one time. Some organizations prefer to use the completed-contract method because of its simplicity; there is no need to calculate how much work was done during a specific time frame or, as a result, how much revenue should be attributed to it.
If other revenue recognition methods, such as the sales-based and completed-contract methods, offer relative simplicity in terms of recording income, then why would someone prefer to use PoC? Although it may be slightly more complicated, there are several advantages to using PoC for certain companies.
The first reason is that it tends to be a more accurate representation of the revenue earned. If the project is forecast to span multiple accounting periods, then recording the entirety of the revenue in a period long after most of the work was done can paint a less precise picture of the company's financial health than if the PoC method were used.
Another important consideration is the expenses that are associated with the project. PoC doesn't only cover when the revenue for a sale is recognized; it also dictates that the expenses are reported in the same way. The percentage of expenses incurred during the time period at hand is recorded along with the revenue, as opposed to the completed-contract method, which defers all the associated expenses along with the revenue. PoC allows you to see your project expenses as they occur.
Also, using PoC can help you more accurately assess your quarterly tax liability. While other options (such as the completed-contract method) allow you to defer all of your tax liability for the associated revenue until the project is complete, you'll have to deal with it all at once. PoC allows you to more evenly distribute your total taxes due.
The most important factor involved in percentage-of-completion accounting is the firm's ability to accurately estimate revenues and costs that will be recorded. That's because the calculations rely on an estimation of the total costs that will be incurred over the life of the contract.
To determine how much revenue to record during a time period, you begin by dividing the expenses you have incurred from the beginning of the period until now by the total estimated expenses for the contract. This gives you the percentage of the work that has been completed during the period. Once you have calculated the percentage of work completed in the period, you then divide that by the total value of the contract to arrive at the amount of revenue you should recognize.
While the PoC revenue recognition method can be extremely beneficial for many organizations, it's not without its limitations. As mentioned, in order for the method to be successful, the company must be able to estimate revenues, costs, and the total length of time of the project. If your business model is prone to wild fluctuations in materials costs, or your projects frequently run well beyond estimations, it may be better to stick with a more definitive revenue recognition method.
Additionally, in order for your revenue estimates with PoC to be accurate, you must be reasonably assured that you will collect on your receivables according to the timeline laid out in the contract. If you spend months or years recognizing incremental revenue and then have to move all of it into bad debt long after the project is completed, it could end up complicating your accounting.
Finally, it's important to note that the PoC method leaves the door open for malfeasance by unethical actors. Of course, every accounting method has its vulnerabilities, and employees or companies can often find a way to exploit any system. However, PoC can be especially vulnerable to so-called "creative accounting" because it is inherently based on estimations spread across multiple time periods.
Do I earn a significant amount of revenue from contracts that span multiple accounting periods?
Will I be able to accurately estimate the parameters of each long-term project?
Is it more advantageous for my tax situation if I defer all expenses and revenue until the end of a contract or record a portion of them more frequently?
Are disputed contracts a rarity, or do they happen somewhat frequently?
Once you've determined that PoC is a good fit for your organization, then you need to have a plan for implementation. Make sure your methods of calculating revenue and expenses are standardized across all projects. Decide which methods you will use to verify the expenditures incurred during the various periods for which you will be recognizing revenue and expenses. Set your accounts receivable team up for success so they can invoice quickly and accurately, and collect promptly upon completion.
The percentage-of-completion accounting method will help your company better align its recorded revenues with its incurred expenses. A thorough understanding of its advantages and implications will help make you a better employee, manager, or company leader.


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Q: Search Tweets in Spreadsheet - Google App Script I would like to store tweets in a spreadsheet from specific searches on Twitter using Google App Script. Do you know how can I make the tweets to appear in the Spreadsheet? The id call for the query function and the API authentication are (I guess) correctly set, but the results for specifics queries are not pull into the sheet. This is part of the code following this guide:
 // Authenticate Twitter API requests with the bearer token
 var apiUrl = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q='+q;

 var apiOptions = {
   headers : {
     Authorization: 'Bearer ' + token
   },
   "method" : "get"
 };
 var responseApi = UrlFetchApp.fetch(apiUrl, apiOptions);

 var result = "";
 var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet();
 var cell = ss.getRange('C3');

 if (responseApi.getResponseCode() == 200) {
 var tweets = JSON.parse(responseApi.getContentText());
 return tweets.statuses;
 }

 var row = 0;
 while(result.next()) {
   for(var i=0; i<9; i++) {     // four fields per record
      cell.offset(row, i).setValue(result.getString(i+1));
   }
   row++;
 }

Thanks!

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1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
1  5    "Section 1.  SAVINGS ACCOUNT FUND APPROPRIATION.
1  6 There is appropriated from the general fund of the
1  7 state to the department of education for the fiscal
1  8 year beginning July 1, 2000, and ending June 30, 2001,
1  9 the following amount, or so much thereof as is
1 10 necessary, to be used for the purpose designated:
1 11    For deposit in the teacher compensation reform and
1 12 student achievement savings account fund created in
1 13 section 8.57B:
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1 19 "limitation." the following:  "The governor's budget
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1 21 incorporate all other funds affecting directly or
1 22 indirectly the condition of the general fund of the
1 23 state, including but not limited to the funds created
1 24 in sections 8.55, 8.56, 8.57, 8.57A, and 8.57B."
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1 28 COMPENSATION REFORM AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT SAVINGS
1 29 ACCOUNT FUND.
1 30    1.  A teacher compensation reform and student
1 31 achievement savings account fund is created as a
1 32 separate and distinct fund in the state treasury under
1 33 the control of the department of education.  Moneys in
1 34 the fund in a fiscal year shall be used as directed by
1 35 the general assembly for teacher compensation reform
1 36 and student achievement activities approved by the
1 37 Seventy-ninth General Assembly, First Regular Session,
1 38 or by future general assemblies.
1 39    2.  Revenue for the teacher compensation reform and
1 40 student achievement savings account fund shall be
1 41 deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to
1 42 the fund and shall include, but is not limited to,
1 43 moneys in the form of a devise, gift, bequest,
1 44 donation, federal or other grant, reimbursement,
1 45 repayment, judgment, transfer, payment, or
1 46 appropriation from any source intended to be used for
1 47 the purposes of the fund.
1 48    3.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys
1 49 appropriated for deposit in the teacher compensation
1 50 reform and student achievement savings account fund
2  1 shall not revert but shall remain available for
2  2 expenditure as directed by the general assembly in
2  3 appropriations made from the fund.
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I have insurance. What do I do?
What is a provider panel?
Can I choose a therapist not on my provider panel?
Well, that all seems rather confusing!
A "third party payor" is someone who is not the client and not the therapist, but a third party, and they are going to pay for the services that the client receives. There are two primary types of third party payors, and you may have both of them available to you. The first type is insurance and the second is an EAP, or Employee Assistance Program.
sessions a year with a $50 co-pay and a $ 5,000 deductible.
and give you some names of therapists on their provider panel.
we are all approved but know it can be confusing if clients don't know to ask about the agency name.
therapist page before you call, you can easily cross-reference the two lists while you are on the phone.
file the claim, rather than the therapist filing for you.
of network" co-pay, or an hour drive to an available "in network" therapist.
insurers realize they need to increase the size of their provider panel.
provide for. Unfortunately, this does not mean your services will be covered.
panel. Only fully licensed therapists are on insurance panels.
panel. If they aren't, it's because they are still in the sometimes lengthy process of getting approved.
None of our therapists accept Medicare.
Open our therapist page on your computer (or print it out), so you'll be ready to reference it.
one for mental health services).
of questions about ID numbers and Plan numbers.
with them what your co-pay and deductible are under your plan.
Call or email the therapist you are pre-certified to see and request an appointment.


Trivago is the 5th most popular journey booking app in the EU, but doesn't even appear within the top 10 within the US. The US counterpart of Trivago is Kayak. Backside Line: Opaque bookings, which cover details until after the acquisition is complete, will often get you the bottom worth in your flight.


In this discussion we would like to explore what business could do to help protect the rights of migrant workers in global supply chains.
Are you an expert in the field? We hope you will share your thoughts and raise questions for discussion to the SxC community.
This discussion is moderated by Marcus Borley and Linn Aakvik, both advisors at the Ethical Trading Initiative in Norway.
Will you be attending the UN Forum on Business and Rights in Geneva? Continue the discussion on migrant workers in global supply chains on SxC!


I've been blogging for about two years now, although really didn't begin consistently blogging until this past summer. I enjoy writing, sharing pictures and stories about my family, talking about my Weight Loss, reviewing products, hosting giveaways...I pretty much like everything there is about blogging. Most importantly I enjoy the community of bloggers. I have "met" so many great people throughout the blogosphere and like to visit them to see what's happening in their lives. I have even had the pleasure of meeting some bloggers in real life, which was such a fun experience.
As I blog more and more, I can't help but want to learn about how to become a better blogger. There are so many successful bloggers out there and by successful, I mean wonderful writers who have loyal readers and commenters. Who doesn't want to have a fan club and comments galore on their posts?
As I read peoples blogging tips, one thing that always jumps out at me is that most of them tell you to "find your niche" and stick with it. For example, Roni's niche is obviously weight loss, Classy Mommy's is sharing family products and giveaways, SassyHomemakers is all things home, and so on.
I don't think I really have a niche. I blog about my kids, my husband, family, friends, teaching, weight loss, and pretty much anything and everything else that pops into my head. I blog whatever makes me happy at the moment.
Now I realize that some are going to say, "Mel, you gotta narrow it down", but you know what? I don't think I have to. I visit some blogs like hers, hers, hers, and hers, plus many, many more because I like the variety of what they post about. Sometimes I want to be surprised when I open up my reader or visit a blog. Maybe I'll see a new picture, maybe I'll read about a great birthday party plan, maybe I'll find out they experienced a miracle, maybe, maybe, maybe.
I like blogging about LIFE!
Do you think its important to have a niche?
My niche is also my life. I would 10 blogs if someone asked me to narrow it all down. LOL!
My niche is weight loss/fitness. I also have a personal blog that I haven't used lately because I'm finally focused BUT I will be changing that and will have one for personal stuff.
I do think it's important to narrow down a niche IF you want to take it to a business level but blogging about your life, if that's your thing, is fine too.
Amen! Why must a blogger have a niche spelled out? Shouldn't our blogs be whatever we want to write about on a given day? I agree with you that it is fun to go to my Google Reader and be surprised by what I will find each day from my favorite bloggers...including you.
I completely understand how you feel...I was starting my blog to help promote my business but then also throw my life in there as well. Still trying to figure out what direction I want to go in, lol.
I have had the same inner struggle going on. I am pretty new to blogging. I love it, but I have also been wondering what my niche is? I think you are right, my niche is "My Life" too. Thanks for the inspiration.
I've often thought about this too and wondered should I separate my knitting/spinning from kids, or from down syndrome? But like you, I like the variety so I leave it as life. I love gaining new readers and meeting new people - but I also love the fact that I have such a good "journal" of my days.
No niche for me...hence the name of my blog. I think you can be a very successful blogger posting about your life!
I'm all about the variety! I wrote an article once about my blog and called it a Mom Blogger Variety Show. I couldn't just have one focus. I do have a separate blog though for weight loss/health because it felt like I needed to keep it separate for my own benefit.


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Le Corbusier: A dialogue with Ronchamp Hill ~ What Takamasa learnt from the living breaths of a master ~
Wed, Jun 29, 2016 – Sun, Aug 7, 2016
《The Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp》 ©Tetsuyu Shiraishi
June 29 (Wed) – August 7 (Sun), 2016
Waseda Aizu Museum (access)
1F Exhibition Room
2F East wing of the Permanent Collection Exhibition Room
10:00~17:00(Admission until 16:30)
※Fridays only 10:00~18:00(Admission until 17:30)
Sundays, Holidays
Holiday openings on
July 18 (Mon, Holiday), August 7 (Sun)
Co-presented by
Department of Architecture at Waseda University, Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Institute for Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Waseda Aizu Museum
"Le Corbusier: A Dialogue with Ronchamp Hill" Exhibition Committee at Waseda University
Contact information:[email protected]l.com
Attention:Yuri Fujii, Shingo Saito, Yui Yoshikawa, Koji Yamada
Foundation Le Corbusier, ASSOCIATION ŒUVRE NOTRE-DAME DU HAUT, Embassy of Switzerland in Japan, Embassy of France in Japan/Institut français du Japon, Architectural Institute of Japan
With sponsorship of
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Exhibition outline
The architect Le Corbusier, the master of modernism, developed the plans for a masterpiece, the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut and its associated structures, in the late years of his life. The Waseda University Research & Measurement Survey Group on Le Corbusier has been continuing to conduct measurement surveys of the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut and its associated structures since 2013. Waseda University research teams conducted the first measurement surveys of the Maison des Pèlerins and the Maison du Gardien since the buildings were completed, and last year, the university formed a research group to carry out measurement surveys of the main chapel building.This exhibition will present the drawings produced from these surveys together with precious cyanotypes actually used by Le Corbusier on site that have been preserved at the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut. These items should offer one with a feel of the architect's living breaths from the time of the project's construction and of his dialogue with Ronchamp Hill. Jean-Franςois Mathey, an expert on matters about the site, will be invited from Ronchamp to take part in a symposium during the exhibition period.
Takamasa Yosizaka, who had been studying at Le Corbusier's atelier around the time of the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut project, taught at Waseda University's architecture department after returning to Japan and went on to nurture many architects. Drawings that Yosizaka drafted at Le Corbusier's atelier during his time in France will also be featured in this exhibition. They should provide clues for us to understand what Yosizaka had learned at the time when the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut project was beginning to take shape.
Furthermore, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo is up for listing with 16 other buildings around the world, all designed by Le Corbusier, as a World Heritage site. The nomination will be finalized this month during a UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Istanbul. We hope this exhibition will provide you with the opportunity to learn more about Le Corbusier and his contributions to the world of architecture.
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I don't normally post my scores when I validate some of our upcoming WODs, but I had a nice lady (Miranda) one day ask me if I even worked out and do this. Anyway here is a WOD we will perform next month and it will also give you a heads up to make sure you stay proficient or start working on a certain exercise.
3 rounds. MRx. Dropped to 65 after first round.


This panel will discuss how land access in urban areas is being changed by a growing middle-class and its socio-spatial impacts, dealing with continuities in urban governance, but also disruptions in balances that have been achieved between elites and the lower income majority since Independence.
Since Independence, cities and towns have flourished in Sub-Saharan Africa, but usually through the expansion of peri-urban areas and with the majority of residents being lower income. However, the recent economic expansion of the region has promoted the growth of a middle-class, which is nevertheless still ill defined. Simultaneously, soon the majority of urban populations will have been born in urban areas, but most countries still do not have urban policies or coherent strategies within their often-limited resources for engaging with these dynamics. This panel will discuss how urban areas are most recently being transformed by a growing middle-class - and include discussions on how the middle class can be defined, identified, measured and its urban impact ascertained. It thus deals with continuities in the nature of urbanity and urban land governance, but also disruptions of forms of balance which have been achieved between elites and the lower income majority since Independence, concerning governance of urban land in particular. Recent research has shown that there seems to be clear evidence of such continuities and disruptions and that urban space is thus increasingly contested, with concepts such as the 'right to the city', as conceived by Lefebvre, far from being achieved - indeed potentially being hijacked by the middle class. As the conference theme suggests, the panel will examine what forces are driving these processes? Has a tipping point emerged in recent years? If so, what are the intended and unintended consequences of this pivotal temporal moment for African urban space?


Designers have floated proposals for a new office development in London's Old Street.
Startup City would be an new addition to what's become known as Silicon Roundabout, offering configurable office space to tech startups with a new enclosed public space on the ground floor.
Dubbed a "city-within-a-city" by designers, the building's façade would be a programmable digital exterior offering advertising opportunities by the pixel and by the minute.
The concept is the result of a partnership between Space Station and 00:/ ('zero zero').
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Check out our delicious Mexican Brunch Menu.
Seats fill up fast so make a reservation or come early.
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World of Warcraft Classic is a 2019 MMORPG video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. Running alongside the main version of the game, Classic recreates World of Warcraft in the state it was in before the release of its first expansion, The Burning Crusade. It was announced at BlizzCon 2017 and was released globally August 26, 2019. The Burning Crusade Classic and Wrath of the Lich King Classic versions of the game were later released to allow players to progress to those expansions.

Gameplay

Classic recreates the game in the state it was in after patch 1.12.1,  September 2006, before the launch of The Burning Crusade expansion. The maximum level of the player characters is set to 60, all expansion content is absent, and almost all the gameplay mechanics of the original version have been exactly replicated. As the game's multiple expansions have dramatically changed the gameplay over time, Classic allows players to relive the original experience, albeit some modern interface and functional enhancements introduced in later expansions have been integrated, as well as re-patching of bugs and exploits that were present at the original release of patch 1.12.

Players can choose from the eight original races of World of Warcraft: humans, dwarves, gnomes, and night elves for the Alliance, and orcs, trolls, tauren, and the Forsaken for the Horde. The original nine classes are present: druid, hunter, mage, paladin, priest, rogue, shaman, warlock and warrior. As in the original version of the game, only Alliance players can become paladins, and only Horde players can become shamans. Races and classes added in the expansions are not available in the game. The game world is restored to its original, pre-Cataclysm state, and expansion areas such as Outland are not accessible.

To emulate the original game's patch release cycle, content in Classic was released in phases. This means that game content originally released in patches, such as the Blackwing Lair, Ahn'Qiraj, and Naxxramas raids, battlegrounds like Warsong Gulch and Alterac Valley, and certain items and quests, became available after launch according to a six-phase schedule. Unlike the content patches for the original game, these phases did not modify the core game mechanics such as character abilities in any way; the game balance has been set to the 1.12.1 version of the game since release.

Development

The option of Classic servers has been a long-standing request in the World of Warcraft community. Every expansion has removed or replaced old content and introduced controversial or unwanted mechanics, resulting in many players expressing a preference for older versions of the game. For example, the game's first expansion, The Burning Crusade, removed the original level-60 version of Kazzak, and in the process, all of the items that he dropped became forever unobtainable. Burning Crusade also added flying mounts, which were criticized for their effect on world PvP; raised the level cap to 70, which was criticized for making all level 60 content obsolete; and opened the formerly faction-specific Paladin and Shaman classes to both factions. The second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, removed the original versions of the Naxxramas and Onyxia raids and all items that could be obtained from them; added a Random Dungeon Finder tool, which many players felt spoiled the "social aspect" of the game; and made certain UI improvements that were criticized for reducing the need to read quest descriptions. Blizzard repeatedly refused to create legacy servers so that players could stay on older versions of the game. One of their oldest refusals was posted on February 21, 2008, by Drysc, who stated "We were at one time internally discussing the possibility fairly seriously, but the long term interest in continued play on them couldn't justify the extremely large amount of development and support resources it would take to implement and maintain them. We'd effectively be developing and supporting two different games."

Versions of World of Warcraft that existed prior to the launch of The Burning Crusade were often referred to as "vanilla" by players, but were referred to by Blizzard as "classic" at least as far back as November 29, 2009, when Vaneras wrote "We occasionally see requests for us to open pre-TBC realms, or classic realms if you prefer. Lately there have also been requests for pre-WotLK realms, and I am sure that once the next expansion pack is released there will be requests for pre-Cataclysm realms as well. We have answered these requests quite a few times now saying that we have no plans to open such realms, and this is still the case today. We have no plans to open classic realms or limited expansion content realms".

Demand for Classic and other legacy realms significantly increased when the Cataclysm expansion revamped the entire original game world, making the majority of the classic or "old world" content forever inaccessible. Blizzard's response at the time, as provided by Tom Chilton, was "Currently, my answer would be probably not. The reason I say that is because any massively multiplayer game that has pretty much ever existed and has ever done any expansions has always gotten the nostalgia of, 'Oh God, wouldn't it be great if we could have classic servers!' and more than anything else that generally proves to be nostalgia. In most cases - in almost all cases - the way it ends up playing out is that the game wasn't as good back then as people remember it being and then when those servers become available, they go play there for a little bit and quickly remember that it wasn't quite as good as what they remembered in their minds and they don't play there anymore and you set up all these servers and you dedicated all this hardware to it and it really doesn't get much use. So, for me, the historical lesson is that it's not a very good idea to do". When the issue was raised at a Q&A panel at Blizzcon 2013, J Allen Brack famously responded "You think you do, but you don't", a phrase which would become the subject of ridicule years later.

Meanwhile, many private servers were being created by the community. Originally, private servers were mere novelties used for experimenting with alterations to the game rules, such as raising the level cap to 255. These early servers rarely had properly scripted raids, quests, or anything else. However, as expansions progressed and demand for legacy realms grew, private servers reversed focus and were seen as a way to faithfully re-create older versions of the game. Private servers emphasizing fidelity to the official versions of the game were referred to as "Blizzlike" and included Feenix, Molten Core, Emerald Dream, Nostalrius, and Light's Hope. The most popular was Nostalrius, which opened in February 2015 and had 800,000 registered accounts and 150,000 active players when it shut down in response to a cease and desist letter on April 10, 2016. In the wake of Nostalrius's shutdown, a Change.org petition for official Classic servers was created and received over 200,000 signatures, and ex-World of Warcraft team lead Mark Kern personally delivered it to Blizzard's president at the time, Michael Morhaime. Blizzard acknowledged the community's desires, and stated they had been discussing legacy servers internally for years but technical problems prevented them from implementing them. Consequently, the Nostalrius team released their source code to Valkyrie-WoW, another long-standing private Vanilla WoW server, hosted in Russia, and the Nostalrius servers returned on December 17, 2016, under the name of Elysium Project, with the player database as it had been just before the shutdown in April.

On November 3, 2017, at BlizzCon 2017, the then-Executive Producer of World of Warcraft, J. Allen Brack, announced Classic on stage during the WoW panel. Details of the project were further revealed in interviews: it was going to be a faithful recreation of the original version of the game, but running on the modern infrastructure. A developer blog post published on June 15, 2018, further detailed the technical implementation, and a panel was held during BlizzCon 2018 that explained the development process behind the game. To create Classic, Blizzard ported the original 1.12.1 game data and assets to their modern server and client infrastructure. This allows Classic to share much of the source code between the modern version of the game, which removes the development overhead of maintaining two different versions of the game, and also means that Classic will have all the performance and security improvements added to the original game server and client that were absent in the 2006 version.

Burning Crusade Classic
In March 2020 Blizzard sent out a survey to Classic players gauging their interest in a Classic Burning Crusade game. After positive reactions it was verified in February 2021 and in the last week of May it became available for download leading up to its release on June 1.

Wrath of the Lich King Classic
In April 2022, Blizzard announced Wrath of the Lich King Classic, scheduled for release later in the year. On July 25, Blizzard released a trailer with the confirmed release date of September 26.

At the launch of the Classic addition, the developers tried to stick to a strategy of minimal changes, reproducing the game as close to the original state as possible. They don't want to introduce adjustments that violate the original spirit of the old additions, so there are no global innovations planned.

The changes include:
 Increasing the health and damage of creatures in the Naxramas raid, in order to maintain interest and a healthy playing environment, as it was originally too easy and players quickly passed it;
 Emblems for completing heroic dungeons have been introduced, in order to motivate players to visit dungeons throughout the supplement;
 Eliminating the introduction of equal loot in 10/25 player raids, as well as improving the quality of loot and the basic difficulty level of heroic dungeons;
 Eliminating the system of automatic inter-server group gathering in the early stages of the addition and improving the system of manual group gathering;
 Players will no longer need to reach level 55 to create Death Knights.
 Replacing gender selection when creating a character with a choice of body types (body 1, body2);
 Introduction of the ability to change physique in the hairdresser's shop for gold;
 many PvP-related changes.
With the start of the second content phase, a new "rune of titans" system became available for heroic dungeons, complicating the dungeon with a certain modifier and rewarding more generous loot. The system has similarities to the epoch keys from Legion, but the current variation has no time counter and no in-game rating.

Reception

PC Gamer scored Classic an 80 out of 100 and wrote, "WoW Classic is more than just a new version of an iconic game, it feels like a window to a time where interacting with people online still felt novel and exciting." Polygon praised the difficulty of Classic and its overall design to nurture "social connections" in comparison to its modern counterpart, calling it a "faithful snapshot of a moment in time".

Since launch, Blizzard has faced some criticism from players for their use of layering technology for the Classic servers. In addition to splitting the communities within each unique realm, players were found to be using the "layers" to exploit the in-game economy. However, as of October 10, 2019, most realms are down to a single layer, with only the highest population servers still utilizing additional layers.

The game won the award for "PC Game of the Year" at the 2019 Golden Joystick Awards, and was nominated for "Game, Classic Revival" at the NAVGTR Awards.

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Two years have passed since Senta, the sorceress Zurfina, and Bessemer the steel dragon, and hundreds of colonists arrived in the strange land of Birmisia. Their new home, Port Dechantagne is under construction in this dark and forbidding land, ruled by terrifying dinosaurs and strange lizardmen. Ten year old Senta must discover which is the greater threat, a would-be wizard or the ever-increasing presence of the tyrannosaurus. Meanwhile, former maid Yuah Korlann must negotiate living among the aristocratic Dechantagne family and deal with their new servants, the aboriginal "lizzies." And young militiaman Saba Colbshallow finds himself in the middle of espionage intrigue.


My art is concerned with similarities between seemingly disparate cultures through the lens of memory, history, iconography, rituals, attire, implements and symbols. I am currently working on two sculpture series dealing with aspiration, transcendence, staging and representation.
My involvement with the art world is wide-ranging and long-standing. My public art projects are installed in San Francisco, Sacramento, Atlanta and New York.
With artworks in the collections of connoisseurs as well as museums, including the Smithsonian and SFMoMA, I am a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Individual Artist and Vermont Studio Center Civil Society Institute Fellowship Residency grant recipient.
I teach and lecture at top art and design schools nationally. I have served on the executive committees of museum and non-profit boards, as well as stints with grant-maker selection committees.
I have written articles about artists of the African Diaspora and curates collections for private individuals and corporations while conducting periodic lectures on THE ART OF ART COLLECTING and THE ART OF BUSINESS.
You may view my resume here.


John "Buzz" T. Mulkey, 69, passed from this world on Saturday, April 13, 2019, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was born on Monday, November 7, 1949 to John M. Mulkey and Dorthy K. (Flemning) Hines in Indianapolis. He worked at Delux Check Printers, Union Carbide, & V.A. Hospital.
He was preceded in death by his parents., John M. Mulkey and Dorthy K. (Flemning) Hines.
He is survived by loving wife of 43 years Phyllis "Misty" (Gladney) Mulkey, stepson Michael T. Gladney, grandson Dillon Baker, granddaughter Linzie Buford and 1 great grandson. Sister Kathy Bays, brother Joe Revel, step mother Rosemary Mulkey, several nieces and nephews and many extended family and friends. There will be no services.


Ashgabat will host a regional meeting on the Aral Sea problem, Trend reports citing the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.
It is expected that the project proposals will be sent to the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) until Dec. 30.
Established in the 1990s by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, IFAS aims to finance joint projects and programs to save the Aral Sea and improve the environmental situation in the Aral Sea region.
IFAS was granted an observer status in the UN General Assembly in December 2008. Ashgabat put forward earlier an initiative to develop a special UN program for the Aral Sea.


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Wearable device gives real-time posture feedback to Parkinson's patients
July 25, 2017 By Danielle Kirsh
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University of Houston researchers have developed a smartphone-based biofeedback rehabilitation system – a wearable device designed to help people with Parkinson's disease.
The research team developed the Smarter Balance System (SBS) to help guide patients through balance exercises while using wearable technology. It is designed to help people regain stable balance and confidence in doing things at home.
"Our overarching goal is to improve their quality of life by improving postural stability, reducing the number of falls and increasing their confidence in daily activity," said Beom-Chan Lee, an assistant professor and principle investigator of the study, in a press release.
The wearable device consists of a belt that is lined with vibrating actuators that help create a personalize, in-home rehabilitation program based on a patient's range of motion. With touch guidance, all movements are mapped in real-time to a smartphone for visual guidance.
"This smartphone application records and creates a custom motion for their body tilt based on their individual limits of stability," said Alberto Fung, a University of Houston graduate student who is a part of Lee's Sensori-Motor Augmentation and Rehabilitation Technology research group. "The touch guidance from the vibrating actuators is almost acting as if a physical therapist is guiding them."
Parkinson's disease is a progressive and chronic movement disorder. About 1 million people in the U.S. have Parkinson's disease, according to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. It causes tremors of the hands, arms, legs, jaw and face and people who have the disease also experience slowness of movement, rigidity or stiffness of the limbs and trunk and even impaired balance and coordination.
Generally, treatment options include medication or deep brain stimulation. However, the postural instability that causes falling is typically unresponsive to medication.
"It's important to develop a system that is easy to use and reality available in the home environment," Lee said. "Most of the time, patients have to rehab at a clinic but there might be limited access. We're not trying to replace traditional therapy but there is a shortage of physical therapists."
The information that SBS gathers is sent to a secure online server that doctors and physical therapists can access to track the progress of a user and possibly adjust the therapy they are participating in.
"Our system is centered around the user," Fung said. "It minimizes manual interactions and is mostly automated. The patients who have tested the system say it's very easy to use and that's very rewarding."
Parkinson's patients tested the belt in a six-week study at home. The researchers on the study said they showed "noticeable improvement."
The researchers also suggest that the technology could benefit more than those with Parkinson's disease. Elders and anyone experiencing balance issues could benefit from the technology.
They are currently improving the technology to be able to test it in more human subjects and hopes to commercialize the technology by summer time next year.
A University of Rochester research team also recently developed a wearable skin patch with sensors that could measure movement and determine what would be the best treatment option for the patient.
This research was funded by a research grant from the American Parkinson Disease Association.
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You can get an expedited passport in Aurora by scheduling an appointment at the regional agency or, if no opening is available before your departure date, employing the services of an official passport expediting courier service. A list of passport expediters in Aurora, Colorado is provided below.
* Fastport Passport has offices in NYC and Philadelphia as well as representatives in California, Chicago, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Massachussetts and Texas.


If you use a Roku device to stream your favorite movies and TV shows and you use smart speakers, phones, or smart displays that have Google Assistant support, your life may have become a bit easier as far as controlling these devices go. You can now connect your Roku streaming devices to your Google account and ask your digital assistant to search for media, play said media, and control the rest of your viewing experience all from the convenience of whatever Google Assistant enabled-device you're using.
All you'll have to do is update your Roku app to the latest OS version 8.1 and add your Roku account to the list of connected devices to your Google Assistant settings. You will then be able to use Google Assistant from your phone or your smart speaker or even your smart display to be able to launch your favorite movie or look for your favorite TV series on Hulu, launch the media, and control how you'll play it, all with voice controls.
If you have Roku TV, you can also use Google Assistant to do some things for you from the comfort of your couch. You can turn on Roku, adjust the volume on your Roku TV or even mute it, change the channel, switch to HDMI 2 in case you want to change the source, etc.
The only caveat for the connection of your Google and Roku is that it's only available now in the US. No news yet if this will be available in other territories soon.


It is the late 1940's, in the war torn Philippine islands. Richard "Gunner" McQuaid, a former U.S. Marine fighter pilot, is haunted by the recent horrors of battle during WWII in the Pacific.
Hoping to escape to a more peaceful way of life, he opens an air cargo business on the sleepy tropical island of Lubang. Also hoping for a more tranquil lifestyle, he is joined by two other expatriates, Mattie Adams, a pretty British war widow who runs the General Store in Lubang Village and James "Doc" McCawley, a widowed British Navy surgeon, at the Lubang Village hospital.
All is quiet after the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific and for a brief period of time, life indeed seems idyllic. Until they suddenly run afoul of a vicious band of criminals, trafficking drugs and enslaved young island girls; heirs to a century old legacy of the most feared and powerful pirate queen in the history of the South China Sea. Their struggle becomes personal when the pirates target McQuaid and Kiko, an adopted nine year old island girl, on orders from the notorious Madam Chin, who controls the Flower Boat prostitution business along Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor with an iron fist.
And, if life hadn't become treacherous enough, McQuaid and friends discover they have stumbled into the path of a secret Chinese conspiracy to gain control over the war shattered island nations of the Far East. Suddenly, they find themselves in a fight for their lives and only "Gunner" McQuaid can save them. That is, if he is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.
DC Musgrove, the author of Under a Pacific Sun, writes novels in a number of genres, including: aviation, historical fiction, sci-fi and science. He is an active blogger and posts to Facebook and Twitter.
American born, Musgrove lived and attended school in Europe as a teen, is a United States Air Force veteran, former flight crew in an air rescue squadron. He is a private pilot, business owner and lives with his wife in Southern California.


Good neighbours, we all want to be good neighbours and we want to have good neighbours. Mostly our neighbours are the people next door, either down hallway or down a street. Neighbours are usually close enough to know each other if not intimately then sight wise. If the walls are thin or the windows are open sometimes they now each other more than is comfortable. We know the comings and goings, the different vehicles, the new siding. When the plumber comes a calling we may not know the why but we can figure it out. The guy who parks his truck on the lawn and the one that is down on his hands and knees pulling the dandelions out by hand. A neighbourhood is full of all types of people.
Neighbourhoods can be welcoming places and some can be anything but. Like the barbeque that the Smiths had and invited everyone on the south side of the street but Hanna family. Everyone else got along as did Hanna's and the Smiths, until one weekend when the RV arrived, something happened nobody was sure what. All that were invited went, they noticed the Hanna's weren't there, they talked among themselves yet no one said anything to the Smiths. After all it wasn't their party or their yard or for that matter their food, what right did they have to say who the Smiths could invite and who not. This slight didn't go unnoticed by the Hanna's either. It was a small block and they had noticed the people passing their yard on the way to the Smith's. Well the Hanna's didn't care because they liked the Smith's just about a little as the Smith's liked them. Well truth be known after the puffing of feathers and the bravado, they cared a great deal.
When Mrs Hanna awoke the next morning and rounded the table in the kitchen she was staring straight into the window of the RV, it was parked 6 inches from the dividing fence. Usually Mr Hanna was a more forgiving sort but he too stared at it eyes bulging. There was room in the driveway to pull ahead and therefore solve the problem so what the he double l is going on, the nerve. So out they go after cramming down their breakfast fit to be tied. They erected a makeshift blind with wood and an old sheet blocking the RV's view of the property. Looked crappy but they wanted to make a point and after all what were the Smiths thinking! It escalated from there.
And so this leads to the night of the barbecue. The Smith's and Hanna's never talked and the other neighbours looked the other way. Was it the perhaps the Hannas fault if they had of voiced their problem with the way the RV was parked in the driveway explained the discomfort it caused, or was it perhaps the Smiths fault if they had taken the Hanna's right to privacy into account. They could have hashed it out and came to an agreement that worked for both of them .It may be …a simple conversation could have alleviated the situation that developed.
And isn't that the way of the world, we're all neighbours some of us are closer than others, and our block is the planet. The Planet Earth is our neighbourhood. Perhaps we should make the effort to listen and talk to our neighbours. Good neighbours, we all want to be good neighbours and we want to have good neighbours, don't we.
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Montrose & Midtown
Directly west of Downtown Houston, Montrose is considered an eccentric patch in the heart of Houston. Homes in the area vary from historic mansions and vintage bungalows to luxury townhouses. For decades, Montrose has been a bohemian and cultural center of the city, while neighboring Midtown rapidly attracts an up-and-coming generation of hip and sophisticated Houstonians.
Named after a town in Scotland, Montrose was established in 1911. Many important cultural figures have lived in the area, including President Lyndon B. Johnson, film tycoon Howard Hughes, and actor Clark Gable. In the late 60s, Houston's counterculture found a home in Montrose. Many underground newspapers and radio stations developed here to create "radio row." Today, the neighborhood is a polished hub for highly regarded restaurants, art galleries, and eclectic shopping and dining.
In the 1990s, the Midtown Redevelopment Authority formed to deliver the district from economic depression. With significant development having begun in the 2000s, Millennials today seeking a permanent residence continue flocking to Midtown in droves. Anyone here can take advantage of a rich nightlife scene, brag about excellent proximity to work, and enjoy an overall urban lifestyle that is hard to beat in terms of quality.
Montrose and Midtown are both part of the Houston Independent School District. Students attend MacGregor, Poe, Wharton, or Wilson Elementary schools; Lanier Middle School, Gregory-Lincoln Education Center, or Cullen Middle School; and Lamar High School or Reagan High School. The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (notable alum: Beyonce) is also located in the area. Other notable alumni include journalist Linda Ellerbe, Nobel Prize-winner Robert Woodrow Wilson, and Houston news anchor Marvin Zindler.
Westheimer Road
Many uniquely Houston shops, eateries, and venues are located along the eastern stretch of Westheimer Road. Space Montrose specializes in locally made and handcrafted clothing, gifts, jewelry, and art. For dramatic and unique home décor and furnishings like Greek busts, Chesterfield sofas, and vintage theater lights, pop into Merchant and Market.
The cultural diversity of Montrose and Midtown is purely evident in its dizzying array of over 250 restaurants. Hugo's has boasted legendary Mexican-American dining since 2002. The Pass offers an omnivore or vegetarian 5-course tasting menu for those with distinguished palates. Uchi creates artfully presented sushi and modern Japanese cuisine. The Breakfast Klub almost always has a line of wisely patient diners wrapped around the building.
Art has always played a significant role in the popularity of Montrose and its surrounding neighborhoods. The Houston Art Car Museum is a monument to Houston as the Art Car Capital of the World. One of the largest privately owned art establishments in the United States can be found at the Menil Collection. Aurora Picture Show features screenings for memorable non-commercial films and videos. You can also discover one of Houston's oldest non-profit art organizations by visiting Art League Houston.
With 160 acres of green space, Buffalo Bayou Park offers some of the best outdoor recreation in the city. In addition to jogging and biking trails, the park features a bat colony underneath the Waugh Drive bridge, the historic Buffalo Bayou Cistern, the 2-acre Johnny Steele Dog Park, the 30,000 square foot Lee & Joe Jamail Skatepark and much more. To find an excellent view of the Houston skyline within this massive green space, head to Eleanor Tinsley Park.


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Ed Clancy will line up in Blackpool this Saturday night looking to take a second consecutive win in the event. The national criterium champion will have his Tour Series winning Motorpoint Marshalls Pasta team behind him.
The fast, flowing 900m circuit has one hairpin turn and just two right-hand bends to slow the peloton down now they're approaching the end of a gruelling crit season. The new circuit is based around Blackpool's Winter Gardens and takes the riders through the visually arresting 'Brilliance' light show.
Add the Tour Series to the National Circuit series, the previous two Nocturnes and the national championships and Blackpool becomes the 21st top level crit of 2010. Clancy has won three of those, two in the circuit series and the nationals, in a two week purple patch through the middle of July.
Clancy and his team mates will come up against a strong Rapha Condor Sharp team lead by Kristian House. House was critical of tactics used in the British crits in an exclusive story in this week's Cycling Weekly.
The former national road champion said throughout the summer riders from many teams had been using underhand methods to help their team mates throughout the summer crit season. "Unless somebody sees it and the commissaires get the balls to do anything about it, it's going to continue to happen."
Read the full article in this week's Cycling Weekly.
House will have seven team mates with him, including Chris Newton, who this week announced his retirement from international racing (story also in this week's Cycling Weekly). Newton will become the Olympic Academy coach in September but will remains contracted to Rapha through to the end of the year.
Sigma Sport, Kuota-Road CC and Cyclepremier.com Metaltek are the other big teams competing on the night, while 2002 Tour de France stage winner Rubens Bertogliati - the Italian has even been honoured with number one position on the start list.
Other events on the night include the CYcling Weekly support race, an-always-entertaining folding bike race, a youth race and the Cycle Hire Challenge race where entrants will race two laps of the circuit before having to correctly dock their bikes after the finish line. Surely a race to hit London's streets very soon.
Racing starts at 6pm, with the Elite race starting at 9pm.
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There has been a mixed response to the UCI's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian riders the opportunity to return to the international stage.


Finding the Japanese Yen exchange rates today in Manali used to be a challenge until BookMyForex came into the picture. But not anymore…Live and real time Japanese Yen exchange rates today in Manali are now available on BookMyForex for currency exchange. You also have the option to lock-in the Japanese Yen exchange rates today in Manali to exchange currency by using the "Freeze the rate" option on the website. Other currency exchangers and websites use the base rate or interbank rate as "today's JPY rate in Manali", which isn't actually the rate at which currency is exchanged. The actual rate for exchanging currency is far higher than the so-called "today's JPY rate in Manali" because the forex dealers have to keep high margins to avoid any losses on account of JPY price fluctuation in the global market. So the norm of "today's JPY rate in Manali" is just an easy way for forex dealers to make a few extra bucks.


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A MAN has been seriously injured in a stabbing attack outside a Glasgow bar, police have reported.
A 22-year-old male was attacked outside the Hazlewood Bar on Nitshill Road on Friday evening.
Police said he suffered "serious injuries".
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said officers were sent to reports of a disturbance outside the bar at around 7.20pm.
She said: "Emergency services attended and a 22-year-old man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment to serious injuries.


Shueyville-native Hailey Whitters is doing great things in Nashville! The country singer announced on social media yesterday that she will be joining Maren Morris for several dates on her world tour!
GIRL the World Tour kicked off last month, but more dates were just added this week. Three of those dates will see Hailey Whitters as one of the show openers, along with Tenille Townes. The good news is, one of those dates is fairly close to us! Hailey will be opening up for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin show on November 11th at The Eagles Ballroom. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, April 5th at 10 a.m. Get more details HERE.
She will also be featured at the shows in LA and San Luis Obispo.
Hailey is an amazing talent and we're big fans of hers here at KHAK. She recently released a couple of songs from her upcoming album that are being VERY well-received. Check them out below!
You can follow Hailey's music and career on her Facebook page HERE.


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import android.hardware.SensorManager;
import android.media.SoundPool;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Graphics;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Input;
import com.badlogic.gdx.audio.Sound;
import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.surfaceview.FillResolutionStrategy;
import com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.surfaceview.ResolutionStrategy;

/** Class defining the configuration of an {@link AndroidApplication}. Allows you to disable the use of the accelerometer to save
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 * @author mzechner */
public class AndroidApplicationConfiguration {
	/** number of bits per color channel **/
	public int r = 5, g = 6, b = 5, a = 0;

	/** number of bits for depth and stencil buffer **/
	public int depth = 16, stencil = 0;

	/** number of samples for CSAA/MSAA, 2 is a good value **/
	public int numSamples = 0;

	/** whether to use the accelerometer. default: true **/
	public boolean useAccelerometer = true;

	/** whether to use the gyroscope. default: false **/
	public boolean useGyroscope = false;

	/** Whether to use the compass. The compass enables {@link Input#getRotationMatrix(float[])}, {@link Input#getAzimuth()},
	 * {@link Input#getPitch()}, and {@link Input#getRoll()} if {@link #useAccelerometer} is also true.
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	 * If {@link #useRotationVectorSensor} is true and the rotation vector sensor is available, the compass will not be used.
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	 * Default: true **/
	public boolean useCompass = true;

	/** Whether to use Android's rotation vector software sensor, which provides cleaner data than that of {@link #useCompass} for
	 * {@link Input#getRotationMatrix(float[])}, {@link Input#getAzimuth()}, {@link Input#getPitch()}, and {@link Input#getRoll()}.
	 * The rotation vector sensor uses a combination of physical sensors, and it pre-filters and smoothes the data. If true,
	 * {@link #useAccelerometer} is not required to enable rotation data.
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	 * If true and the rotation vector sensor is available, the compass will not be used, regardless of {@link #useCompass}.
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	 * Default: false */
	public boolean useRotationVectorSensor = false;

	/** The requested sensor sampling rate in microseconds or one of the {@code SENSOR_DELAY_*} constants in {@link SensorManager}.
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	 * Default: {@link SensorManager#SENSOR_DELAY_GAME} (20 ms updates). */
	public int sensorDelay = SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_GAME;

	/** the time in milliseconds to sleep after each event in the touch handler, set this to 16ms to get rid of touch flooding on
	 * pre Android 2.0 devices. default: 0 **/
	public int touchSleepTime = 0;

	/** whether to keep the screen on and at full brightness or not while running the application. default: false. Uses FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON under the hood. */
	public boolean useWakelock = false;

	/** hide status bar buttons on Android 4.x and higher (API 14+). Doesn't work if "android:targetSdkVersion" less 11 or if API
	 * less 14. default: false **/
	public boolean hideStatusBar = false;

	/** whether to disable Android audio support. default: false */
	public boolean disableAudio = false;

	/** the maximum number of {@link Sound} instances that can be played simultaneously, sets the corresponding {@link SoundPool}
	 * constructor argument. */
	public int maxSimultaneousSounds = 16;

	/** the {@link ResolutionStrategy}. default: {@link FillResolutionStrategy} **/
	public ResolutionStrategy resolutionStrategy = new FillResolutionStrategy();

	/** if the app is a livewallpaper, whether it should get full touch events **/
	public boolean getTouchEventsForLiveWallpaper = false;

	/** set this to true to enable Android 4.4 KitKat's 'Immersive mode' **/
	public boolean useImmersiveMode = false;

	/** Experimental, whether to enable OpenGL ES 3 if supported. If not supported it will fall-back to OpenGL ES 2.0.
	 *  When GL ES 3* is enabled, {@link com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx#gl30} can be used to access its functionality. Requires at least Android 4.3 (API level 18).
  	 * @deprecated this option is currently experimental and not yet fully supported, expect issues. */
	@Deprecated public boolean useGL30 = false;

	/** whether to use {@link com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.surfaceview.GLSurfaceView20API18} in place of the classic
	 * {@link com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.surfaceview.GLSurfaceView20} on Android API 10 and lower.
	 * In case this is true {@link com.badlogic.gdx.backends.android.surfaceview.GLSurfaceView20API18} will be used.
	 * This implementation properly supports attach to and detach from window. default: false */
	public boolean useGLSurfaceView20API18 = false;
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19 Best Memes of the Green vs Red Uniforms, aka Buffalo Bills Beating the New York Jets
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The Buffalo Bills the New York Jets, but the meme makers were more focused on the weird green and red combinations worn by the two teams, which meant all the colorblind people couldn't really figure out who is playing who.
As an ode to Christmas, and something that reminded a lot of people of the new red Starbucks cup which has been driving people insane, there was some weird sense of feeling to watching the battle for the second spot in the AFC East, now occupied by the Bills thanks to their head to head with the Jets.
It was also one of those less than exciting games, without a high level of football. The Bills ran the ball and then ran it some more. Tyrod Taylor once again kept things rather clean and simple, but without doing anything remarkable, just one touchdown pass. Ryan Fitzpatrick, besides making a ridiculous face, was intercepted twice (two touchdown passes as well) and couldn't get the Jets into the end zone in the fourth quarter when they were just five points down.
Rex Ryan has broken the trend that has been haunting him this season and since 2012, which is almost every time his team wins it's followed by a loss. The Bills finally have two wins in a row, finding themselves at 5-4 which doesn't happen often to them. And guess what? If the season ended today, the Bills would be in the playoffs.
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64th Annual World Series of Drag Racing At Cordova International Raceway Now a Day Away
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Six months after the return of the World Series of Drag Racing presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts to Cordova International Raceway in Cordova, Ill., was announced, the time has come – the World Series of Drag Racing begins tomorrow in the Quad-Cities. Race officials, local dignitaries and competitors previewed this weekend's event during a news conference at Rhythm City Casino Resort, the event's official resort.
Three-time Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon will compete in his first World Series of Drag Racing this weekend. Dixon began his career as a crew member at Don Prudhomme Snake Racing, later became the team's driver and won two world championships. He joined Alan Johnson Racing in 2009; he missed the Top Fuel title by two points that year but came back with a vengeance and won his third world championship in 2010. After the 2011 season, he parted ways with Alan Johnson Racing and drove for various race teams while making plans to begin his own team for which he will drive this weekend.
World Series of Drag Racing presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts preview news conference participants, left-to-right, are Cordova International Raceway president and general manager Dominic Blasco, two-time world champion Del Worsham, IHRA president Mike Dunn, three-time Top Fuel world champion Larry Dixon, Davenport, Iowa Mayor Frank Klipsch, Quad-Cities Convention & Visitor's Bureau president and CEO Joe Taylor and Rhythm City Casino Resort general manager Mo Hyder.
"I'm excited and honored to race in such a prestigious event," Dixon said. "A lot of years, looking back as a kid, I watched Shirley (Muldowney) and (Don) Garlits and Snake (Don 'The Snake" Prudhomme) – all my heroes I grew up watching ran this event. To be able to get my first shot at it, I'm glad I'm racing in it, and I'm glad it's back at Cordova."
Two-time world champion Del Worsham will race in his fourth World Series this weekend in the Lucas Oil Funny Car. He began his career driving his family's Funny Car and raced there until he moved to the Alan Johnson Racing Funny Car in 2009. He later switched over to drive a second AJR Top Fuel dragster and won the 2011 World Championship. He then retired as a Top Fuel driver and went to Kalitta Motorsports as a Funny Car crew chief before getting into the seat of the DHL Funny Car in which he won a world championship in 2015. This season, he moved back to his father's race team and now drives the Worsham Racing Funny Car.
"It's a very cool event," Worsham said. "Growing up on the west coast, I didn't get to really experience the World Series, but I read about it in newspapers and magazines. I've raced the World Series a couple different times in my career, and it's a huge event. Outside of a national event, it's about as big of an event as I've ever experienced. A lot of prestige and history come with this event. When you win the World Series of Drag Racing, you definitely let people know about it; it goes on your resume with other things you've accomplished."
International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) president Mike Dunn, a former driver and television analyst, will serve as this weekend's co-grand marshal with his former crew chief, Roland Leong. IHRA is owned by IRG Sports + Entertainment, the same company that owns Cordova International Raceway.
Cordova International Raceway president and general manager Dominic Blasco began the news conference with a brief event preview followed by Quad-Cities Convention & Visitor's Bureau president Joe Taylor, Davenport, Iowa Mayor Frank Klipsch and Rhythm City Casino Resort general manager Mo Hyder.
"A year ago, the track and the Quad-Cites was quiet," Taylor said. "There seemed to be something amiss when the World Series wasn't here last year, and now that's all been taken care of because it seems like there's a renewed interest and buzz. People are viewing the cars here on display and taking pictures – it seems like it's almost new again even though it's been here for 63 years. I think it's off to a new start, a new beginning if you will, and it's very exciting. The drivers we have, Del and Larry in particular, are so appreciative of being here so I think it's a win for not only the sport of drag racing but also for the Quad-Cities and our region."
The World Series of Drag Racing attracts sportsman and professional racers from around the country to compete. The top names in drag racing participate in exhibition runs, match racing and competitive elimination action in front of capacity crowds. Notable participants in previous World Series of Drag Racing events include: IHRA president Mike Dunn, Clay Millican, "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, Shirley Muldowney, Del Worsham, T.J. Zizzo, Cruz Pedregon, Tony Pedregon, Tim Wilkerson, Bruce Litton, Chris "The Greek" Karamesines, Warren Johnson, Larry Morgan, Dom Lagana and many more.
About Cordova International Raceway:
Cordova International Raceway (CIR) is home of the 64th annual World Series of Drag Racing, the world's longest continually running drag racing event. Located in the Quad Cities region of Illinois and Iowa, the 190-acre facility features a 1/4-mile drag racing strip sanctioned by the International Hot Rod Association.
Weekend drag racing events are held all summer. Specialty events include the Super Chevy Show, the School's Out Junior Nationals and Door Warz. For more information on CIR, visit www.racecir.com or connect on Facebook @RaceCordova.
About IRG Sports + Entertainment:
IRG Sports + Entertainment™ (IRGSE), a TPG Specialty Lending company, is a leading marketer and promoter of sports and live entertainment experiences in the United States, Canada, Bahama's, New Zealand and Australia. The Company owns and operates four motorsports facilities: Palm Beach International Raceway™ (PBIR), Memphis International Raceway™ (MIR), Maryland International Raceway™ (MDIR) and Cordova International Raceway™ (CIR); as well as the International Hot Rod Association™ (IHRA) and the International Drag Bike League™ (IDBL). IRGSE properties promote more than 1,150 motorsports, live entertainment and corporate events annually at its venues and within its series. For more information, please visit www.irgse.com, follow @IRGSports on Twitter and LinkedIn.


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Injury Petitions for Northern California State Championships must be submitted no later than March 6, 2019.
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Todi's origins lie deep in the chronicles of history: a legend tells of a majestic eagle which delivers a drape to the Veii Umbri population to transport them to the peak of a hill, where the same Veii decided to found the city which was given the name "Tutere", whose origin is unknown but likely means "confine".
From this was born the city emblem: an eagle with spread wings clinching a drape between its talons.
From the Umbran-Etruscan and then Roman periods remain some traces of the first and second city walls. However as a "free state" it was mostly in its Medieval period that Todi saw its greatest territorial expansion, during which the city was enriched with spectacular architectural works of art which today characterise and dominate the City landscape, making Piazza del Popolo one of the most beautiful squares in all of Italy: here are clearly marked the ongoing worldly struggle between the sacred powers – represented by the 12th century Cathedral – and temporal powers, as seen by the Palazzo del Popolo (1213), Palazzo del Capitano (1292) and the Palazzo dei Priori (14th century).
In the 13th century a third circular wall was built, the very same which today can be admired and which enclosed – practically unaltered up until the 1970's, when Todi saw its first urban expansion outside its protective city walls – the whole medieval city which had sprung within its embrace. Today along the walls can still be admired the great city gates of Porta Romana, Porta Fratta or Amerina, Porta Orvietana and Porta Perugina.
Along with the magnificent Piazza del Popolo can be seen other beautiful monuments such as the gothic Church of San Fortunato (1400), whose cript buries one of Todi's most famous historical figures: Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306. Also to be discovered the hidden and majestic Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione (16th century) attributed to the works of Bramante, as well as the " Temple of the Crucifix", found on the opposite side of the city.
To discover the traquil and relaxing beauty of Todi visitors musn't forget to walk into the lanes and alleys found in the antique heart of the city, rich with history and enchanting inlets along which are still intact tiny churches of various Monastic Orders and the antique doorways of artisan shops, where today craftsmen still create blacksmith, carpentry and ceramic works and restorations using traditional methods.
To learn more about this important history the City of Todi Cultural Society (Parco Culturale della Citta di Todi) organises tours of set itineraries to restored areas of the city which are normally unaccessible to the general public (for information call 0039 75 8944148).
Assisi in Italy stretches out on the slopes of the Monte Subasio, above the plain where the Topino and Chiascio rivers flow. Although it can boast Roman origins, its present-day appearance, because of the buildings and also the urban structure, is surely due to the city's development during the Middle Ages.
Assisi's oldest nucleus, which is protected by a defensive apparatus made up of eight fortified entrance portals and a long belt of town walls, which are still perfectly preserved, is topped by two castles on peak of the mountain: the Major Castle, reconstructed by the Cardinal Albornoz in 1367 and the Minor Castle. Apart from religious buildings too important to not be considered solely the heritage of Assisi such as the basilica of St. Francis, the tourist can also visit the churches of St. Clare and St.Peter. The first was constructed in the Gothic style between 1257 and 1265, the second is a little older and decorated with an elegant middle portal with three rose-windows.
The Cathedral, dedicated to the Patron Saint St. Rufino, vaunts a splendid and unaltered facade with sculptures and reliefs; the interior, however, has undergone much reconstruction during the centuries which have distorted the original project dating back to the 13th century. On the Town Square situated on the ancient Forum, you will find the Priors' Palace (1337), the Palace of the People's Captain (12th century) and the temple of Minerva, built during the augustean period with pronaos, columms and corinthian capitals which are still intact.
Nearby, places which are connected with the life of St. Francis can be visited, such as the Eremitage of the Prisons, immersed in a thick wood of oaks and ilex on the slopes of the Subasio Mountain, and the convent of St. Damian, which was built up around the oratory were, according to tradition, the Cross spoke to the Saint.
Finally, in the plain, the impressive basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels was built according to the plans of Alessi between 1569 and 1679 to protect the Porziuncola Chapel, which was the first simple meeting-place of the Francescan brotherhood. All those who have the good luck of visiting this splendid town have to agree with who says that the beauty of town goes beyond a short, and necessarily incomplete list of works of art more or less extraordinary, but is however to be found in the atmosphere of places which the story and the faith of the Saint have rendered unique all over the world. Canticle of the Creatures Celebration of the Pardon Church of San Damiano Church of St. Rufino Sanctuary of Rivotorto Santa Maria degli Angeli St. Clare of Assisi St. Francis of Assisi St. Peter The Chapel of the Transit The Porziuncola.
« Perugia, strongly fortified by art and nature, on a lofty eminence, rising abruptly from the plain where purple mountains mingle with the distant sky, is glowing, on its market-day, with radiant colours » (Charles Dickens Pictures from Italy, Londra 1846)
Perugia, the great "Guelf strong-hold" rises up in the region's heart, with its 5 storical quarters closed-in by its Etruscan town walls. These enormous bastions formed by cyclopic square masses, were constructed 22 centuries ago and are still visible for long stretches. When the city of Rome was little more that an encampment of huts, one could already enter the etruscan Perugia Italy using one of 7 portals, among which one was particularly mighty, the Porta Pulchra or of Augustus, dating back to Etruscan times.
Entering the city via Porta San Pietro, whose exterior was remodelled by Agostino di Duccio in 1475, you'll arrive at the basilica of St. Dominic on the right-hand side; the very important National Archeological Museum of Umbria is to be found in the adjacent cloisters and convent.
Continuing along, you'll reach the Piazza del Sopramuro, where the 15th century Palace of the Old University and the adjacent Palace of the People's Captain look down on the square. Further on, after a short climb, you'll find yourself in one of Italy's most important squares, where you'll see the Priors'Palace, the Cathedral and the 13th century fountain Major Fountain at the center. These monuments render the Piazza Grande of Perugia (now called Piazza IV Novembre) a superb architectural complex.
At the extreme end of Corso Vannucci you'll find famous panoramic gardens built on the foundations of the Rocca Paolina, a strong-hold built by Pope Paul III in 1540. These foundations contain, similar to under an enormous bell, an entire quarter of the old Perugia: a dead city, a sort of Medieval Pompei which has been brought tot light again and which is fascinating to visit.
Perugia's ascents and stairways are usually quite steep, both the most ancient and the most recent. The way Via delle Prome is a typical example. Leaving from the Augustus Arc, this way lead to the upper point of Perugia, where used to be the castle of Porta Sole, erected in the XIV century by the dal Gattapone, and destroyed later for willing of the whole town people. A short visit in Perugia is definetly interesting, but is a longer visit which will reveal all the atistic jewels in detail.
Even if you are on a short visit, you should not miss the archtectural complex of St. Francesco, with the Oratory of St. Bernardino, a masterpiece of Agostino di Duccio, who, in covering the facade with bas-reliefs of enchanting grace and modelled fineness made it a little poem of Renaissance sculpture.
Among the most important manifestations taking place in the city we should absolutely mention the musical festival Umbria Jazz and the gastronomic festival Eurochocolate. To see: Arco Etrusco, Chiesa di Sant'Angelo, Fontana Maggiore, Palazzo dei Priori, Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria.
Etruscan era. The ancient city (urbs vetus in Latin, whence "Orvieto"), populated since Etruscan times, has usually been associated with Etruscan Velzna, but some modern scholars differ. Orvieto was certainly a major centre of Etruscan civilization; the archaeological museum (Museo Claudio Faina e Museo Civico) houses some of the Etruscan artefacts that have been recovered in the immediate neighborhood.
Roman and post-Roman eras. Orvieto was annexed by Rome in the third century BC. After the collapse of the Roman Empire its defensible site gained new importance: the episcopal seat was transferred from Bolsena, and the city was held by Goths and by Lombards before its self-governing commune was established in the tenth century, in which consuls governed under a feudal oath of fealty to the bishop. Orvieto's relationship to the papacy has been a close one; in the tenth century Pope Benedict VII visited the city of Orvieto with his nephew, Filippo Alberici, who later settled there and became Consul of the city-state in 1016. Middle Ages Orvieto, sitting on its impregnable rock controlling the road between Florence and Rome where it crossed the Chiana, was a large town: its population numbered about 30,000 at the end of the 13th century.[1] Its municipal institutions already recognized in a papal bull of 1157, [2] from 1201 Orvieto governed itself through a podestà, who was as often as not the bishop, however, acting in concert with a military governor, the "captain of the people". In the 13th century bitter feuds divided the city, which was at the apogée of its wealth but found itself often at odds with the papacy, even under interdict. Pope Urban IV stayed at Orvieto in 1262-1264. The city became one of the major cultural centers of its time when Thomas Aquinas taught at the studium there.
Papal rule. The territory of Orvieto was under papal control long before it was officially added to the Papal States(various dates are quoted); it remained a papal possession until 1860, when it was annexed to unified Italy. To visit: besides many medioeval churches, the Gothic Duomo, with its an Brizio Chapel frescoed by L.Signorelli and Beato Angelico, San Patrick well and Orvieto underground.
The city's origins are very ancient. The hills above the town were already occupied in the Bronze Age. As Ikuvium, it was an important town of the ancient Umbrian people in pre-Roman times, made famous for the discovery there of the Eugubine Tables, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in ancient Umbrian. Gubbio has historical attractions spanning many periods.
The 14th- century Palazzo dei Consoli houses Umbria's largest collection of Roman artifacts. Gubbio's most important date is May 15. Every year for centuries on that day, the Corsa dei Ceri has taken place: Three teams of twenty, each carrying three large wooden statues, race through the streets.
Main sights The historical centre of Gubbio is beautiful and of decidedly medieval aspect: the town is austere in appearance because of the dark grey stone, narrow streets, and Gothic architecture. The main monuments and sightseeings of the city include: The Roman Theatre, the Roman Mausoleum, the massive Palazzo dei Consoli, the Duomo (Cathedral), built in the late 12th century, the Palazzo Ducale, built from 1470 by Luciano Laurana or Francesco di Giorgio Martini for Federico da Montefeltro. Famous is the inner court, reminiscent of the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino, the Church of S. Francesco.
Gubbio is home to the Corsa dei Ceri, a run held every year always on the 15th day of May, in which three teams, devoted to St. Ubaldo (the patron saint of Gubbio), S. Giorgio, and S. Antonio, run through throngs of cheering supporters.
The town has been actively settled since the times of the Umbri. It has been under the successive domination of the Romans, Lombards, being called Coccorone in the Middle Ages. In 1249 it was sacked by Federico II, but was soon rebuilt with the modern name. from the 13th century it had been a free comune under the domination of local nobles and merchants, but later, as with many other Umbrian locales, the comune gave way to government by a Signoria — in this case, that of the Trinci from the nearby Foligno (1383–1439). In 1446 it fell under the rule of the Papal States where it remained until the unification of Italy in 1861.
St. Clare of Montefalco, sometimes known as St. Clare of the Cross, was born in Montefalco and died there in 1308. Montefalco today has several churches, some in the Romanesque, some in the Gothic and some in the Renaissance style. Historically, the most important is the church of San Francesco, which is now the town's museum, and, given its collection of art and artifacts, one of the most important museums in Umbria. The church is notable for its fresco cycle on the life of St. Francis, from the Florentine artist Benozzo Gozzoli (1450–1452). Other artists represented in the museum include Perugino, Melanzio, Pier Antonio Mezzastris, Antoniazzo Romano and Tiberio d'Assisi.
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Norashen (en arménien ) est une communauté rurale du marz de Gegharkunik, en Arménie. Fondée en 1920, elle compte  habitants en 2008.

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Communauté rurale du Gegharkunik